Make bright the arrows Gather the shields: Conquest narrows The peaceful fields. Stock well the quiver With - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

The Storm Breaks in the East: The Rise of Imperial Japan Make bright the arrows Gather the shields: Conquest narrows The peaceful fields. Stock well the quiver With arrows bright: The bowman feared Need never fight. Make bright the arrows, O peaceful and wise!

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Japanese plan involved 6 heavy aircraft carriers with 24 supporting vessels, and separate group of submarines. 260 Japanese planes participated in the attack (181 planes in first wave launched at 6am; 170 planes in second wave launched at 6:30 am); Japanese lost 29 planes, 4 midget subs, and less than 100 casualties (<10% of attacking force)

“The Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941” Created by the U.S. Naval Historical Center (site includes oral histories and lesson plans) at http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm

“National Museum of the Pacific War” at http://www.nimitz-museum.org/ also includes oral histories and lesson plans at

http://www.nimitz-museum.org/education/teks_orient.htm

For more lengthy, excellent studies see:

At Dawn We Slept and December 7, 1941 by Donald M Goldstein, Gordon W Prange, Katherine V Dillon; see also Katherine Dillon again for God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor or read his own explanation about the Pearl Harbor attack in Mitsuo Fuchida’s essay “The Air Attack on Pearl Harbor” in The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers. For an excellent overview of the American experiences in WWII in the Pacific, see Ronald Spector, Eagle Against the Sun or any of the wonderful volumes in Samuel Eliot Morison’s classic study, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II15 Volumes.